Lodz -
My grandmother, Mala Dorfman is one of the most inspirational and influential people I know. She is a Holocaust survivor, and I am very fortunate for this opportunity to hear her story and share it with all of you.

As we enter a new age of thinking, it seems as though the ideals of the American Dream are stuck in antiquity. It is these residual industrialist ideals that keep people hanging on to the old world while being left behind by the new.

A study released by the Corporation for Enterprise Development finds that almost half of all American households "are living on the edge of financial collapse" due to having little savings to fall back on should they suffer an income-depleting emergency.

The next US president could be Obama, it could be Romney, or even Ron Paul, but the larger part of the global market forces that will impact on the US economy remain unchanged and largely outside the control of US planners.